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What do you think the phrase “Unproductive Funk” means to Robert Pollard? Does it mean that he sometimes goes an entire morning without writing any scratchy power-pop jams with inscrutable lyrics? A whole day? What? In the entire history of American indie rock, Robert Pollard might be the least unproductive figure out there. (He’s also not terribly funky, but that claim is probably a little more disputable.) And yet Pollard’s band Guided By Voices have just released a song called “Unproductive Funk” as the single from their just-announced new album.
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Robert Pollard’s endlessly prolific indie-rock institution Guided By Voices have announced their 35th album, Crystal Nuns Cathedal. “This record is a statement, a challenge, a monument, a call to arms,” the band’s Guided By Voices Inc. label says in a statement. “Top this one if you can, this is ...
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The band were due to play Atlantic City on December 30 and New York City on December 31The post Guided By Voices cancel upcoming shows amid Omicron wave appeared first on NME.
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Guided by Voices: announce 34th album, ‘It’s Not Them. It Couldn’t Be Them. It Is Them!’
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The announcement comes amidst the band’s current North American tourThe post Guided By Voices announce 34th album, ‘It’s Not Them. It Couldn’t Be Them. It Is Them!’ appeared first on NME.
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Guided By Voices have announced yet another new album. This one is called It’s Not Them. It Couldn’t Be Them. It Is Them! and it will be released in October. It’s the prolific rockers’ second album of the year following Earth Man Blues, which came out at the end of April. Today, Robert Pollard is introducing it with a new...
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There are so, so many great Guided By Voices songs, and “Game Of Pricks” might be the greatest of all. The Alien Lanes banger has been covered many times over the years, by artists including Owen Pallett, Waxahatchee, Jimmy Eat World, and Mo Kenney. Curiously, most of those have been intimate solo renditions of a song that or...
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